The real demon is success-the anxieties engendered by this quest are relentless, degrading, corroding. What is worse, there is no end to this escalation of desire.

Revelation is the marriage of knowing and feeling.

All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.

You cannot throw words like heroism and sacrifice and nobility and honor away without abandoning the qualities they express.

All wars derive from lack of empathy: the incapacity of one to understand and accept the likeness or difference of another. Whether in nations or the encounters of race and sex, competition then replaces compassion, subjection excludes mutuality.

In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude

The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.